In the depths of your inner ear lies one of biology’s most intricate sound systems. A new discovery reveals that the cochlea ...

By winding itself in a spiral, the organ takes up less space. The bony chambers (purple) of the inner ear form precise geometric shapes (see Figure 4). There are five sensory epithelia in the balance ...

Our lab uses the inner ear as a model system to address fundamental questions in developmental biology and regeneration. The transformation of a simple piece of epithelium - the otic placode - into a ...

Examination of the mucosal immune system as a global organ, rather than as a group of individual components, will identify and characterize relationships between mucosal sites. The term 'common ...

Marcus Edsall-Parr, a teenage kidney patient in Michigan, has been getting dialysis treatments for years. Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times The sickest patients are supposed to get priority ...